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Issued  December  5,  1906. 


United' States  Department  of  Agriculture, 


BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


Amendment  No.  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137  (Regulations  Governing-  the 
Meat  Inspection  of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture). 


REGULATIONS  GOVERNING  THE  ADMISSION  INTO  ESTABLISHMENTS 
WHERE  INSPECTION  IS  MAINTAINED  OF  THE  CARCASSES  AND  MEAT 
AND  MEAT-FOOD  PRODUCTS  OF  ANIMALS  WHICH  HAVE  NOT  HAD 
POST-MORTEM  INSPECTION  BY  AN  INSPECTOR  OF  THE  BUREAU  OF 
ANIMAL  INDUSTRY  AT  THE  TIME  OF  SLAUGHTER;  THE  INTER- 
STATE AND  FOREIGN  TRANSPORTATION  OF  IMPORTED  MEAT  AND 
MEAT-FOOD  PRODUCTS ;3  AND  THE  (INTERSTATE  TRANSPORTATION 
OF  CERTAIN  MEAT  AND  MEAT-FOOD  PRODUCTS  ON  HAND  ON 
OCTOBER  1. 

U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  December  5,  1906. 

For  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  use  in  interstate  commerce  of  meat 
and  meat-food  products  which  are  unsound,  unwholesome,  unhealthful, 
or  otherwise  unfit  for  human  food,  under  authority  conferred  upon  the 
Secreta^  of  Agriculture  by  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress 
approved  June  30,  1906  (34  Stat.,  674),  the  following  new  regulations, 
and  an  amendment  to  the  amendment  to  paragraph  (j)  of  Regulation 
50,  are  hereby  prescribed  for  the  transportation  in  interstate  and  foreign 
commerce  of  the  meat  and  meat-food  products  of  cattle,  sheep,  swine, 
and  goats. 

This  regulation,  which  for  the  purpose  of  identification  is  designated 
as  Amendment  No.  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137,  shall  become  and  be 
effective  at  once. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


Regulation  62.  Meat  and  meat-food  products  from  the  carcasses 
of  animals  which  have  not  had  post-mortem  inspection  by  inspectors  of 
the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  at  the  time  of  slaughter  will  not,  except 
as  hereinafter  provided,  be  admitted  into  establishments  where  inspec- 
tion is  maintained.  The  exception  to  this  rule  applies  only  to  car- 
casses with  the  head  and  all  viscera,  except  the  stomach,  bladder,  and 


intestines,  held  together  by  natural  attachments.  Such  carcasses,  if 
offered  for  admission  into  an  establishment  where  inspection  is  main- 
tained, shall  be  inspected,  and  if  found  to  be  free  from  disease  and 
otherwise  sound,  wholesome,  healthful,  and  fit  for  human  food,  they 
will  be  marked  "  U.  S.  Inspected  and  Passed"  and  admitted  into 
establishments  where  inspection  is  maintained.  If  found  to  be  dis- 
eased, unsound,  unwholesome,  unhealthful,  or  otherwise  unfit  for  human 
food,  they  will  be  marked  "U.  S.  Inspected  and  Condemned,"  and  the 
proprietor  of  the  establishment  where  inspection  is  maintained  will  be 
required  to  destroy  them  for  food  purposes.  This  is  an  absolute  require-, 
ment  of  the  meat-inspection  law  and  can  not  be  waived  or  departed 
from  in  any  instance  or  particular. 

Regulation  63.  Establishments  where  inspection  is  maintained 
which  also  process  or  prepare  imported  meat  or  meat-food  products 
will  be  required  to  conduct  such  processing  or  preparation  in  a  building 
separate  and  apart  from  the  building  in  which  domestic  meat  and  meat- 
food  products  are  prepared  under  Department  supervision.  The 
Attorney-General,  in  opinion  dated  September  27,  1906,  ruled  that  the 
meat-inspection  amendment  did  not  cover  the  transportation  of 
imported  meat  and  meat-food  products.  Therefore,  imported  meat 
and  meat-food  products  which  have  not  been  mixt  with  or  added  to 
domestic  meat  or  meat-food  products  may  be  exported  to  any  foreign 
country  without  the  certificate  required  by  Regulation  45,  as  amended 
by  Amendment  No.  3  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137.  However,  the  col- 
lector of  customs  should  require  an  affidavit  that  any  such  meat  or 
meat-food  product  offered  for  export  is  in  fact  imported  and  not  mixt 
with  or  added  to  any  domestic  meat  or  meat-food  product. 

Regulation  64.  Imported  meat  and  meat-food  product  which  has 
not  been  mixt  with  or  added  to  domestic  meat  or  meat-food  product 
may  be  transported  in  interstate  commerce.  When  any  imported  meat 
or  meat-food  product  which  has  not  been  mixt  with  or  added  to  any 
domestic  meat  or  meat-food  product  is  offered  to  any  common  carrier 
for  transportation  from  one  State  or  Territory  or  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia to  another  State  or  Territory  or  the  District  of  Columbia  as  inter- 
state or  foreign  shipment,  the  person,  firm,  or  corporation  offering  such 
imported  meat  or  meat-food  product  shall  make  the  following  certificate, 
in  duplicate,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  common  carrier: 

Date ,  190 

Name  of  carrier  to  which  offered 

Shipper 

Consignee 

Point  of  shipment 

Destination 

Car  number  and  initial 

(Need  not  be  given  in  the  case  of  express  companies  or  ships.) 


The  following-described  meats  or  meat-food  products  are  imported  and  have 
not  been  mixt  with  or  added  to  any  domestic  meat  or  meat-food  product,  and 
are  sound,  healthful,  wholesome,  and  fit  for  human  food : 

Description  and  iveight  of  shipment. 


(Signature  of  shipper.) 

The  duplicate  certificate  shall  be  forwarded  immediately  by  the  initial 
carrier  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  Washington, 
D.  C.  The  waybills,  transfer  bills,  running  slips,  or  conductors'  cards 
accompanying  a  car  containing  a  shipment  of  imported  meat  or  meat- 
food  product  made  under  this  regulation  must  have  embodied  in, 
stamped  upon,  or  attached  to  the  same  a  certificate  in  the  following 
form  by  the  issuing  railroad  company : 

(Name  of  railroad  company) 

Imported  meat  and  meat-food  product  not  mixt  with  domestic  meat  or  meat- 
food  product,  as  evidenced  by  shipper's  certificate  on  file  with  initial  carrier. 

(Signed) ,  Agent. 

Regulation  50.  Paragraph  (j)  of  Regulation  50,  as  amended  by 
Amendment  No.  4  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137,  is  hereby  further  amended 
by  inserting  the  wTords  "  and  December"  after  the  word  "November" 
in  the  seventh  line  of  the  said  paragraph  and  by  inserting  the  wrords 
"and  January,  1907,"  after  the  figures  "1906"  in  the  seventh  line  of 
said  paragraph.  The  effect  of  this  amendment  is  to  add  twro  months  to 
the  time  during  which  sweet  pickled,  dry  salted,  smoked,  and  other 
similar  meats,  lard,  lard  compounds,  lard  substitutes,  butterine,  and 
oleomargarine,  which  wrere  on  hand  on  October  1,  may  be  inspected  and 
past  and  moved  in  interstate  commerce. 

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